Eyewitness State Accounts of What They Saw in Gurdaspur

> 4:30 am: four men hijacked a white Maruti car from the Old Pathankot-Gurdaspur road in Punjab, and fired at a passenger bus, killing three civilians. > 5:30 am: the attackers opened fire at a police station in Gurdaspur district, 11 km from Gurdaspur city, close to the Indo-Pak border, and 80km from Amritsar.

> Death toll rose to five after two police home guards died during the operation. Army took charge of operation.

> The terrorists are still in the police station and the encounter is still on.

> 9:52 am: Home Minister speaks to DG BSF, D.K. Pathak, and instructs him to step up the vigil on India-Pakistan border in the wake of attack in Gurdaspur.

> 10:00 am: “We were hit by a burst of gunfire suddenly. I was hit on the shoulder. They are firing indiscriminately every five minutes,” a Punjab police official, who was injured in the attack, told media as he was being taken to the hospital.

> 10:20 am: Gurdaspur Deputy Commissioner Abhinav Trikha: “The encounter is on. We will be able to tell more only after it ends.”